Starbucks red cup controversy

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This isn't a real social issue, or it wasn't anyways until the media took off with it.

So...

are we supposed to be offended because they did not print the words "Merry Christmas" on the cups? And therefore are part of the "War On Christmas"?

Or are we supposed to be offended because they didnt print "Merry Christmas,AND happy hannukka,AND happy Kwanzaa, et etc" and all of that?

I am eager to join in with my indignation. But I am confused as to what thing that I am supposed be indignant about.

I really just don't get the people who feel like there is a 'War on Christmas'. As a non-Christian American, I find it difficult to overstate just how utterly dominant Christian culture is in our society and how much it permeates your life even if you don't want it to - it can't really be avoided short of becoming a hermit living in the woods. Plus the raw numbers of Christians - in the US something like 65-70% of people identify themselves as Christian - the remainder identify themselves as atheist/agnostic or other religions - so Christians basically outnumber all other groups combined by 2x. So it seems a bit disingenuous or overly fearful for Christians to be going around acting as if their religion is under some sort of actual threat. If all the other groups got together (despite all their differences, making it very unlikely) to engage in some sort of 'war on Christmas', they'd be outnumbered 2:1 and last I checked, we still at least pretend to live in a democracy. The real "threat", I suppose, would be a greater need for them to accommodate other religious points of view and not be able to dominate as they do today - basically they act as if they'd be unhappy being equal rather than dominant whereas other groups would be happy just to be equal rather than inferior.

Any how, we're talking coffee cups. If Starbucks replaced "Merry Christmas" with "Happy Chanukah" or "Ramadan Mubarak" or some other religious phrase, I wouldn't agree with them but I could understand them being upset a little. But a plain cup? Yeesh.

I Googled this.



Seems they used to have Christmas images on the cups and that's been stripped and people are angry. It all seems very silly though. Now I could understand it if Starbucks had come under pressure and caved in, but I don't think that's the case.

Manufactured offense at work.

There's no controversy. There never was, even a little bit. One or two TV preachers said something about it (and donald trump?), but people have forgotten TV preachers have throughout the history of television said ridiculous and outrageous things about christianity in the name of profit and attention.. as has donald trump. This was blown up because the liberal social media loves to poke fun at anything christians say or do unfavorable to promote their own agenda.

I'm sorry, to me it all seems so... well... dumb.

This whole idea of whether an organization is celebrating a holiday too much, or not enough... Who the f**k cares? This whole discussion seems like South Park script.

Why does it even matter? Whether you're offended by religious ideas or by irreligious ideas. Why do you need your coffee provider to share your view on holidays?

This is so much unimportant, that it's not even the most important issue regarding Starbucks, which is, their coffee is s**t.

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